Observer's expanded virtual monitoring capabilities
go beyond traditional analysis tools which provide limited
views of virtualized networks. Network teams using Observer
can now access a complete, integrated view of virtual
traffic traversing physical networks, between different
virtual machine hosts, and between virtual machines
on the same host. Further, all virtual traffic and communications
flowing within the virtual machine host can be copied
and sent to a GigaStor™ appliance for back-in-time analysis
or the Observer Reporting Server for enterprise-wide
performance reports.
"While server virtualization is happening at a
rapid rate, tools for managing application performance
in these environments have not kept pace," said
Will Cappelli, research vice president at Gartner. “In
order to understand application behavior, one needs
to combine data from the dynamically reconfiguring application
layer, network layers, and virtualization layer. Traditional
tools which assume that the environments remain static
while an application executes are not answering the
needs of the Global 2000.”
Complete Performance Tracking
Central to any performance monitoring effort is the
ability to monitor seamlessly across physical and virtualized
environments. Using the Observer platform, organizations
obtain enterprise-wide views of virtualized resources
and performance within virtualized and physical environments.
"Companies often migrate to virtualization to
cut costs, but find the move opens up gaps of coverage
as their traditional monitoring tools can't address
these new environments," said Charles Thompson,
product manager of Network Instruments. "Customers
can rely on the Observer platform to provide visibility
to all points on their network, regardless of whether
it's at the edge or core or within physical and virtualized
environments. Using our performance management platform,
engineers can pinpoint performance problems from high-level
reports and immediately perform root-cause analysis." |
